The Void Captain's Tale

Spinrad, Norman

ISBN 10: 0671434837 / ISBN 13: 9780671434830

Edité par Timescape Books, New York, 1983

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Ex-library with usual markings, spine slanted, some edge wear, stain on lower edge of back board. Jacket is in protective wraps, glued to pastedowns, some soiling, minor edge wear. "A tale from the second star-faring age where Void Pilots are always female because the function is linked to the psychesomic function of platform orgasm and requires a voluntary addictive personality, non-orgasmic in normal sexual contact. In the normal course of things, the Void Captain and the Void Pilot never meet, but Genro meets his Void Pilot, and discovers the source of her strength and strange resolve: in the instants of the Jump she has caught a glimpse of a transcendental consciousness, and her ultimate desire is to achieve it as a permanent state-which she can accomplish only with Genro's cooperation in a Blind Jump-from which they may never return!"; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Void Captain's Tale
• Éditeur: Timescape Books, New York
• Date de parution: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0671434837
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780671434830
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Synopsis

Book by Spinrad Norman

Présentation de l'éditeur

In the Second Starfaring Age, humans travel the universe via a technology they barely understand, propelled by a space drive consisting of mysteriously complex mechanisms and, symbiotically linked to it, a living woman, the Void Pilot. Pilots are rare, and the ability to be a Pilot also entails physical wasting and a shortened life. But Pilots live only for the timeless moments of Transition, when their ships cross the emptiness of space in an instant. Now Void Pilot Dominique Alia Wu has begun to catch a glimpse of something more, something transcendent in that eternal moment . . . and she needs the cooperation of her Captain to achieve it permanently. Even at risk to the survival of the Ship. Norman Spinrad has been one of SF's most adventurous writers since the 1960s, an internationally praised peer of such writers as Harlan Ellison, Michael Moorcock, and Samuel R. Delany. His stories of the Second Starfaring Age, The Void Captain's Tale and the later novel Child of Fortune, form a single epic praised by the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as "an eroticized vision of the Galaxy . . . an elated Wanderjahr among the sparkling worlds."